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Page xvii
... capital , and the enormous share which the pos- sessors of the instruments of industry are able to take from the produce . " In defence of my position , I may say that in Chapter V. I only attempted an analysis of industrial society as ...
... capital , and the enormous share which the pos- sessors of the instruments of industry are able to take from the produce . " In defence of my position , I may say that in Chapter V. I only attempted an analysis of industrial society as ...
Page xix
... Capital is idle ; labour is unemployed ; production of wealth ceases ; want and even starvation come to thousands ; separa- tions , divorces , and prostitution increase in alarming proportions - and all this happens because the ...
... Capital is idle ; labour is unemployed ; production of wealth ceases ; want and even starvation come to thousands ; separa- tions , divorces , and prostitution increase in alarming proportions - and all this happens because the ...
Page 6
... capital enabled them to put it to practical test . Root - crops and artificial grasses were adopted to utilise fallow land and poor pastures . The introduction of rotation of crops did away with exhaustion of the soil . " Writers of ...
... capital enabled them to put it to practical test . Root - crops and artificial grasses were adopted to utilise fallow land and poor pastures . The introduction of rotation of crops did away with exhaustion of the soil . " Writers of ...
Page 11
... capital in industry in England before the coming of machinery . Even those engaged in other than agricultural pursuits very often lived in cottages in the country , and held small strips of land for cultivation . The metal workers of с ...
... capital in industry in England before the coming of machinery . Even those engaged in other than agricultural pursuits very often lived in cottages in the country , and held small strips of land for cultivation . The metal workers of с ...
Page 15
... home industry . As late as 1775 , Adam Smith considered that large aggregations of capital in Joint Stock Concerns could only be successfully worked in the trades of banking , insurance , making and maintaining a ENGLAND IN 1760 15.
... home industry . As late as 1775 , Adam Smith considered that large aggregations of capital in Joint Stock Concerns could only be successfully worked in the trades of banking , insurance , making and maintaining a ENGLAND IN 1760 15.
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing combination compelled competition cotton Democracy disease duction economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation industrial problem Industrial Revolution inventors iron knowledge labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions mediæval medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary Newcastle-on-Tyne operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom profit progress railway rapidly raw materials recognised reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen sanitary secure Sidney Webb social society spinning steam steam-engine struggle supply textile things tion to-day towns trade Trade Unionism transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving